Curiosity and Mind Wandering During Music Listening Are Negatively Correlated.

ABSTRACT: Curiosity, a crucial trigger of exploration and learning, has been described as the antithesis of mind wandering, a state of non-engagement with the external environment or a given task. Findings have confirmed that music's structure influences levels of curiosity in listeners as they listen and, as such, suggests that this context could be useful in examining the relationship between curiosity and mind wandering. Here, participants were exposed to extended melodies twice, during which they carried out two counterbalanced tasks: one requiring them, whenever probed, to indicate whether they had been mind wandering at that moment and the other requiring them to indicate, when probed, how curious they were feeling about the music at that moment. Critically, participants were probed at the exa

SUBMITTER: Perez Ariza JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11939264 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature